Outputs (2)

"Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite" (2007)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite". New Blackfriars, 88(1017), 600-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00173.x

I offer a brief outline of The Beauty of the Infinite, pointing up its similarities with and differences from John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory (1990), and the violence of its rhetoric. I then take issue with Hart's reading of Nicholas Lash o... Read More about "Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite".

"Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf" (2007)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf". Literature and Theology, 21(2), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frm012

David Malouf, in his novel An Imaginary Life (1978), explores the nature of human identity through his narrator, the Roman poet Ovid, who himself was a noted fabulist of identity and its instabilities. It would seem that for both writers, ancient and... Read More about "Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf".